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> REPL concept the interactive REPL was introduced by Lisp around 1962 way before Lisp Machines, Smalltalk...
by lispm 8y ago
> REPL concept
the interactive REPL was introduced by Lisp around 1962 way before Lisp Machines, Smalltalk...
- pjmlp 8y agoYes, but not with the capabilities that their graphical sucessors brought into the computing world. You surely could not display inline structured data and interact with it graphically on an IBM 704 teletype.
- lispm 8y agoWell, you had Lisp structure editors already in the 60s. Doing it graphically doesn't really add too much to it. If you read the manual for BBN Lisp, you can see that it did end 60s / early 70s more than many current systems do - like managing source code, working with images, structure editors for code and data, sophisticated user-level error handling, etc..